My Bucket List

So as I was studying for my stats test, I had an idea... I would make a bucket list!  So here is what I want to do before I am dead... 

• Dumpster Diving
• Raising a chicken from an egg
• Smash Pumpkins
• Grow a pineapple plant
• Dress up as Cindy Lou Whoo and sing Where Are You Christmas
• Give Amy a piece of cake
• WHEN I HAVE NO KIDS-->Get a babysitter, tell them the child is upstairs asleep and should not be disturbed, leave, come back and ask where my kid is.....
• Cuddle with Amy without having her scream
• Learn to juggle
• Have a mental breakdown in the testing center
• Become a motivational speaker (hahahahahaha)
• Fulfill my reoccurring dream (Amy next door neighbor)
• Spread the Laura Theorem to all my students (2 + 2 = 4)
• Shake hands with the prophet :)
• Drive cross country with someone fun!
• Go to Disney Land every year for the rest of my life!!!!!!!!!  (Disney World is an acceptable replacement)
• Go to Harry Potter land
• Teach
• Eat sand
• Eat five saltine crackers without drinking anything in under 1 minute
• Go with someone and dress up like Santa and Mrs. Clause and carol/bring presents too :)
• Build an epic sand castle
• Go to a Jewish synagogue
• Get married in the temple and have a family forever! :)
• Go to Holland and bring back a tulip
• Frolic in tulip fields
• Build an AWESOME snow fort and have an epic snowball fight even though its illegal in Provo (this must be done in Provo)
• Break the law (see above)
• Travel to New York and be a lame tourist (must wear an “I <3 NY” t-shirt
• Find Jeffery’s long lost brother (thanks Steve)
• Go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
• Leave a Christmas tree up for an entire year
• Create a tacky ornament Christmas tree
• Go horseback riding
• Go skiing
• Donate to Locks for Love (eventually)
• Plant a tree and name it after someone I <3
• Plant a tree, name it after the inventor of stats, and chop it down with vengeance then burn it… yeah, I’m not resentful :P
• Get a beard card
• Go hand out free balloons during finals week outside the testing center
• Sing outside the testing center
• See lights at temple square
• Hypnotize people
• Dance in the rain :)
• Swim with dolphins
• Participate in a parade
• Visit a Renaissance fair
• Ride a unicycle
• Perform as a street musician with Amy
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Parasail
• Slap Katelyn in the face  (just for you girl)
• Milk a cow
• Dance like a fool in a very public place singing the pokemon song at the top of my lungs!!!!!!!!!!!
• Go to Britain and take pictures in a telephone booth (preferable red)
• While in Britain, ride a double decker bus
• Go spend like two days in the San Francisco Zoo
• Go to the circus (again)
• Buy and play with a favorite toy from childhood--probably a "Easy Bake Oven"
• Spontaneously break out into a choreographed dance in Central Park
• Learn how to solve a rubix cube (without peeling the stickers off)
• attend Black Friday forevers!!!
• Eat at iHop at 2 in the morning
• Reverse pick pocket someone with five bucks! :)
• Visit every US states-like stop and look around, not just drive/fly through
• Cook a turkey that’s not half raw
• Serve at a soup kitchen
• Sleep under the stars
• Watch my kids on Christmas morning
• Be stuck in a elevator
• Keep fish that stay alive for more than 10 days
• Dress up as Ninjas and ambush people 
• Throw stuff from the top of the jfsb or swkt 
• Ride the swkt elevator for like 20 minutes facing the wall and see what happens....
• Become a pokemon trainer
• Shoot a gun
• Ride a train across state borders :)
• Ride a donkey in the grand canyon
• Attend all the different temples that I can
• Not fail stats/burn stats book when finished with the class
• Make a time capsule and bury it (to dig it up later)
• Call my Congressmen over something stupid
• Change my name
• Mow a shag carpet with a lawn mower
• Let a salesmen talk me into something I don't need
• Read the Old Testament (this one might take a while)
• Become a life coach
• Create an awesome youtube video
• Write a book and sell it on amazon
• Play hide & seek in walmart
• Break a world recordàdodgeball
• Hand out caramel onions in the fall
• Become a vantrilliquous
• Shoot people outside my window with a marshmallow gun from inside my couch fort
• Receive a damehood from a queen
• Go see Wicked in New York :)
• Go tour Las Vegas hotels (in the mornings when all the crazies are gone)
• Go to a baseball game
• Take a picture with Cosmo
• Try green eggs and ham
• Eat a hot dog from a street vendor (and hope I don’t die)
• Eat at the undersea restaurant in Ithaa
• Set off fireworks
• Light a match (yeah, they scare me so I never have… sad right?)
• Get my palms read
• Become rich, get a job, and see how annoying I can be before they fire me
• Hand out money to random strangers
• Pay for someone randomly without their knowing
• Jump into a pool fully clothed
• Sit on a jury
• Have an epic pillow fight lasting at minimum one hour
• Have a light saber fight in the middle of the quad dressed up as Shakespearean characters and yelling random lines from a play he wrote
• Say to someone (in context)… “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a darn”
• Chase an ambulance
• Collect 100 snow globes and then give them away
• Make a quilt
• Become a grape juice connoisseur
• Go cheese tasting
• Buy all my Christmas presents before Halloween
• Have a child on July 31 and name him Harry (hahaha… jk… mostly… maybe a middle name)
• Actually read one of my textbooks I waste money on all the way through...
• Have a pen pal (preferably from a different country)
• Swim in 3 oceans
• See a pyramid
• Hug someone until I fall over (both of us)
• Spin a globe around, buy a ticket, and go there
• Pretend to speak a random language and not understand people at a restaurant
• Invent a language
• Have a mock argument with someone in a super public place and see if anyone says anything
• Send messages in morris code
• Sacrifice a gingerbread house to the candy gods
• Build a snowman (carrots included)
• Pay cash for a car
• Go on a couples mission
• Use a baby name generator to name my child (maybe a middle name)
• Die in a really cool way… and make it into the Darwin award

Blessings in Disguise

I'm done with my transcription work!!!   Hallelujah! I never thought I would finish and I am DONE!!!! :) :) :)   Small blessing I'll share with ya'll...

So I agreed to do this transcription work for a grad student (Kathie) and it really didn't seem like that big of a project when I took it on/I had a lot more time or so I thought.  But a week ago, I asked Kathie for a deadline--she gave me till Thanksgiving!  So needless to say, I was stressed b/c I gave myself a week to finish!  And I started to get grumpy/hate the books Green Eggs and Ham and The Tale of Peter Rabbit.  Well... I worked hard and did like 15 transcriptions but I was so sick of doing it!  I had just a few left--4.  I needed to finish but was procrastinating till tonight when I finally decided I HAD to finish!  So I did the first video (only 7 minutes meaning it only took me like an hour to finish the transcription)!  Then I opened the second and started... but wait, I had heard this before!  I looked and YES... I had heard it before!  It was a wonderful feeling--like an early Christmas present to me from Heavenly Father!  I shouted for joy!  I didn't have to transcribe this 25 minute video (which would have took me like 2 or 3 hours to do)!  Then, as I opened the last two, they again were the same!  SO WONDERFUL!  I am so blessed and watched out for in the small and trivial stuff!!! :)   Thank goodness cause I'm pretty sure I was about to die under all the work I had/have to do! 

My Ghetto Lasagna

So this morning, I decided to make lasagna (cause I'm making dinner for some friends who just had their baby) and it was probably the most interesting lasagna I've ever made.  So it started out well-I planned to make a 1 1/2 lasagnas (full for us and 1/2 for them) so I boiled 9 noodles (a full takes 3 noodles and half, I figured, would take 3).  I half-boiled them (I was impatient so I pulled them out early).  Then I realized the first bad thing... I only had 1 can of sauce (and I use 1 per lasagna) so I decided to stretch it.  The second bad thing... my cottage cheese looked like grits because it had been frozen for a little while:

I don't know if you know what cottage 

cheese looks like but it's not this.

However, I persevered.  I cooked the meat, added the sauce, and made the first half lasagna successfully.  But I realized something more bad as I kept going...I realized I had run out of cheese.  Luckily, I had some in the freezer!  So I got it out and preceeded to break it the usually way... by stepping on it and throwing it on the floor.  My roommate, Amy, sat on the couch going, "Wouldn't it be funny if that bag split?"  And I replied, "The bag won't split!"  And then... bam!  The bag split in the middle of our living room floor.  Here is the re-inactment (because we already threw away the cheese but then I wanted pictures)

Our floor... it actually had like 10x's more cheese

than this but I didn't feel like being a complete

freak and spreading all of it on the floor! :) 

Yeah, it didn't even really break... there were still

huge chunks!

Amy, chilling on the couch, is refraining

from saying, "I told you so!"  But she

said it later...

So after the cheese disaster, Amy helped me clean up and I started to finish the lasagna.  BUT then... I realized I was 1 noodle short!  Ugh!  So I took another noodle and started to boil it under the water in the sink... yeah, it doesn't work... so whoever eats that half of the lasagna will be sad (and have crunch noodles).

The crunch noodle.

 The lasagna... looks normal! 

Wonder how it'll taste! 

Amy helping me clean up 

the giant cheese mess!

Roommates, A Poem

Amy’s bestest in this home because

She owns a garden gnome.

She doesn’t eat any meat,

But eats broccoli for a treat.

She doesn’t like to cuddle

But likes to jump in puddles.

She’s my favorite, best of all,

Too bad she is so very tall.

Talicee is next you see,

She doesn’t make any D’s (only E’s).

She loves to play and read and eat

And always makes a tasty treat.

She pokes and prods and pins and sticks

Because her nursing teacher’s sick.

She’s my favorite, best of all,

Too bad she is so very tall.

After this, comes twin number one,

Her name is Katelyn and she is fun.

She loves to cook and run and shop,

And has a pathologic need to mop.

Her closet always very full,

And cleanliness is her rule.

She’s my favorite, best of all,

Too bad she is so very tall.

Amber’s next, the second twin,

Me and her are just like kin.

She sleeps above my head at night,

And sometimes gives me quite the fright.

She likes to shop at Pier 1,

If I would let her, she would buy a ton.

She’s my favorite, best of all,

Too bad she is so very tall.

My lastest roomie is named Kirsten,

And sometimes she likes to kick my shin.

It really hurts and I cry a lot,

But she’s so awesome we’ve never fought.

We build our forts so big and tall,

And really hope they don’t fall.

She’s my favorite, best of all,

And good thing—she’s so very small!